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Reporter - A Memoir (Paperback): Seymour M Hersh Reporter - A Memoir (Paperback)
Seymour M Hersh 1
R374 R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le Carre In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy. Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog, ingenuity and defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for The New York Times and the New Yorker. It is a tale of night-time encounters with great Civil Rights leaders, unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials, raucous dinners with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi, tense phone calls with Secretaries of State, desperate to save face; of exposing myriad military and political wrongdoing, from My Lai to Watergate to Abu Ghraib, and the cynical cover-ups that followed in Washington and New York. Here too are unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades, from Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr., from Henry Kissinger to Bashar al-Assad. Ultimately, in unfurling Seymour Hersh's life and career, Reporter tells a story of twentieth-century America, in all its excitement and darkness.

Vietnam 1971 - Letters Home from a 1st Cavalry Soldier in the Jungles of South Vietnam (Paperback): David E Glarner Vietnam 1971 - Letters Home from a 1st Cavalry Soldier in the Jungles of South Vietnam (Paperback)
David E Glarner
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Origins of the Vietnam War (Paperback): Fredrik Logevall The Origins of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Fredrik Logevall
R1,324 Discovery Miles 13 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A short accessible introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War, from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the full-scale war in 1965.

Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? The war had a profound and lasting impact on the politics and society of Vietnam and the United States, and it also had a major impact on international relations. With this book, Frederik Logevall has provided a short, accessible introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War.

Who Will Go - Into the Son Tay POW Camp (Paperback): Terry Buckler, Cliff Westbrook Who Will Go - Into the Son Tay POW Camp (Paperback)
Terry Buckler, Cliff Westbrook; Foreword by Roger H C Donlon
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Vietnam War - A Documentary Reader (Paperback): E Miller The Vietnam War - A Documentary Reader (Paperback)
E Miller
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences. * Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which showcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiences during the war * Contains original American documents germane to the continuing debates about the causes, consequences and morality of the US intervention * Incorporates personal histories of individual Americans and Vietnamese * Introductory headnotes place each document in context * Features a range of non-textual documents, including iconic photographs and political cartoons

VIETNAM War SPEAK - The Distinctive Language of the Vietnam Era (Paperback): William W Stilwagen VIETNAM War SPEAK - The Distinctive Language of the Vietnam Era (Paperback)
William W Stilwagen
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Bright Shining Lie - John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue): Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie - John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue)
Neil Sheehan
R915 R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Save R129 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Outspoken, professional and fearless, Lt.Col.John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civilians and by the arrogance and corruption of the US military. He flouted his supervisors and leaked his sharply pessimistic - and, as it turned out, accurate - assessments to the US press corps in Saigon. Among them was Sheehan, who became fascinated by the angry Vann, befriended him and followed his tragic and reckless career.

Memories Unleashed - Vietnam Legacy (Hardcover): Carl Rudolph Small Memories Unleashed - Vietnam Legacy (Hardcover)
Carl Rudolph Small
R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This memoir of the Vietnam War is structured as a series of short stories that convey the emotional and physical landscape of the Vietnam War. It is a window into the war from the perspective of the author, who served in a rapid response assault force, as 'the Marine'. The reader shares the Marine's experience through a year of combat that tested his character and shaped his destiny. Small joined the Marine Corps in 1969 at 19 years old, coming from a small Vermont farming community. After boot camp and speciality training he landed in Da Nang as a private first class. With three battlefield promotions in 8 months, he soon became a platoon sergeant. Small did not talk of his experiences in Vietnam over the next forty years, but has now written this book, for veterans' families, including his own, to understand what their loved ones experienced. It is a unique and powerful text that is that it is written in such a way it brings you inside the marine; you see what he sees, feel what he feels. You know him; his back story; what he is thinking; why he made the decisions he needed to make. No names are mentioned throughout the book. Memories Unleashed is an assemblage of memories, consisting of stories that stand alone to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. It addresses the warrior, the lives of innocent people caught up in the war, and the American and Vietnamese families impacted by those who fought.

Vietnam, Full Circle - A Combat Veteran Returns (Paperback): Martin J. Dockery Vietnam, Full Circle - A Combat Veteran Returns (Paperback)
Martin J. Dockery
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Unsung Heroes, study guide (Paperback): Lisa Worthey Smith Unsung Heroes, study guide (Paperback)
Lisa Worthey Smith
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Promises To The Fallen - A Vietnam War Novel (Hardcover): Glyn Haynie Promises To The Fallen - A Vietnam War Novel (Hardcover)
Glyn Haynie
R729 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Three Funerals for My Father - Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam (Paperback): Jolie Phuong Hoang Three Funerals for My Father - Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam (Paperback)
Jolie Phuong Hoang
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam Studies - Communication-Electronics 1962-1970 (Paperback): Department of the Army Vietnam Studies - Communication-Electronics 1962-1970 (Paperback)
Department of the Army
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Taps - The Silent Victims of the Vietnam War: The Families Left Behind (Paperback): Philip A. Keith Taps - The Silent Victims of the Vietnam War: The Families Left Behind (Paperback)
Philip A. Keith; Illustrated by Jeanne McCarthy; George M. Motz
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Killer Kane - A Marine Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam, 1967-1968 (Paperback): Andrew R. Finlayson Killer Kane - A Marine Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam, 1967-1968 (Paperback)
Andrew R. Finlayson
R928 R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Save R234 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team's experiences in the pivotal period in the war, the year leading up to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Using primary sources, such as Marine Corps unit histories and his own weekly letters home, he presents a highly personal account of the dangerous missions conducted by this team of young Marines as they searched for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong units in such dangerous locales as Elephant Valley, the Enchanted Forest, Charlie Ridge, Happy Valley and the Que Son Mountains. Taking only six to eight men on each patrol, Killer Kane searches for the enemy far from friendly lines, often finding itself engaged in desperate fire fights with enemy forces that vastly outnumber this small band of brave Marines. In numerous close contacts with the enemy, Killer Kane fights for its survival against desperate odds, narrowly escaping death time and again. The book gives vivid descriptions of the life of recon Marines when they are not on patrol, the beauty of the landscape they traverse, and several of the author's Vietnamese friends. It also explains in detail the preparations for, and the conduct of, a successful long range reconnaissance patrol.

Helicopter Rescues Vietnam Vol. IV (Paperback): Phil Marshall Helicopter Rescues Vietnam Vol. IV (Paperback)
Phil Marshall
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Those Angry Days - Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 (Paperback): Lynne Olson Those Angry Days - Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 (Paperback)
Lynne Olson 1
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lynne Olson's last book, 'Citizens of London', told the story of three prominent Americans who supported Britain during the dark early years of World War II when Britain alone in Europe held out against Hitler. 'Those Angry Days' views these years of crisis from the American side, as the country divided into interventionist and isolation factions who fought in Washington, in the press, even in the streets to express their vehement convictions.

The Golden Fleece - High-Risk Adventure at West Point (Hardcover): Tom Carhart The Golden Fleece - High-Risk Adventure at West Point (Hardcover)
Tom Carhart
R821 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the fall of 1965, Army cadet Tom Carhart and five others at West Point Academy pulled off a feat of precision and ingenuity that made them famous: the theft of the Navy's Billy-Goat mascot from their rival academy, Annapolis, just before the biggest game of the year. With U.S. forces in Vietnam swollen to nearly 200,000 and American casualties steadily growing, it was an unnerving time to join the military. At West Point, the young men preparing to graduate the following June were well aware that they would be called upon to serve, and quite possibly die, in that far-off country where war raged. That November would be the last Army-Navy football game any of the six cadets would ever participate in, so they had to make it count. After an embarrassing theft of their mascot ten years earlier, the Navy went to extraordinary lengths to make sure it could never happen again. Formal agreements were made between the two superintendents, who subsequently threatened fire and brimstone to any of their charges who dared go near the other Academy. To reinforce those orders, during the week before The Big Game, the Navy placed their goat in an effectively impregnable lockup under 24/7 guard by U.S. Marines at an intimidating Naval Security Station--a modern day Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece by Tom Carhart is the incredible true story, told by one of the participants, of how six West Point cadets in the Class of 1966 set out to steal that Golden Fleece, and how they succeeded against all odds. The Golden Fleece is a rollicking non-fiction military caper about a famous prank conducted by these cadets as their one last hurrah before shipping off to a war they might not come back from.

Ambush Valley - I Corps, Vietnam 1967-the Story of a Marine Infantry Battalion's Battle for Survival (Paperback): Eric... Ambush Valley - I Corps, Vietnam 1967-the Story of a Marine Infantry Battalion's Battle for Survival (Paperback)
Eric Hammel
R365 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R28 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In the summer of 1967, the Marines in I Corps, South Vietnam's northernmost military region, were doing everything they could to lighten the pressure on the besieged Con Thien Combat Base. Still fresh after months of relatively light action around Khe Sanh, the 3d Battalion, 26th Marines, was sent to the Con Thien region to secure the combat bases' endangered main supply route. On 7 September 1967, its first full day in the new area of operations, separate elements of the battalion were attacked by at least two battalions of North Vietnamese infantry, and both were nearly overrun in night-long battles. On 10 September, while advancing to a new sector near Con Thien, the 3d Battalion, 26th Marines, was attacked by at least a full North Vietnamese regiment, the same NVA unit that had attacked it two days earlier. Divided into two separate defensive perimeters, the Marines battled through the afternoon and evening against repeated assaults by waves of NVA regulars intent upon achieving a major victory. In a battle described as 'Custer's Last Stand-With Air Support', the Americans prevailed by the narrowest of margins. Ambush Valley is an unforgettable account of bravery and survival under impossible conditions. It is told entirely in the words of the men who faced the ordeal together - an unprecedented mosaic of action and emotion woven into an incredibly clear and vivid combat narrative by one of today's most effective military historians. Ambush Valley achieves a new standard for oral history. It is a war story not to be missed.

The My Lai Massacre - The History of the Vietnam War's Most Notorious Atrocity (Paperback): Charles River Editors The My Lai Massacre - The History of the Vietnam War's Most Notorious Atrocity (Paperback)
Charles River Editors
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
To Hear Silence - Charlie Battery 1st Battalion 13th Marines: The First 15 Months (Paperback): Ronald W Hoffman To Hear Silence - Charlie Battery 1st Battalion 13th Marines: The First 15 Months (Paperback)
Ronald W Hoffman
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Donut Dolly - An American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam (Paperback): Joann Puffer Kotcher Donut Dolly - An American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam (Paperback)
Joann Puffer Kotcher
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Donut Dolly puts you in the Vietnam War face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next to a commanding general, and slogging through the mud along a line of foxholes. You see the war through the eyes of one of the first women officially allowed in the combat zone. When Joann Puffer Kotcher left for Vietnam in 1966, she was fresh out of the University of Michigan with a year of teaching, and a year as an American Red Cross Donut Dolly in Korea. All she wanted was to go someplace exciting. In Vietnam, she visited troops from the Central Highlands to the Mekong Delta, from the South China Sea to the Cambodian border. At four duty stations, she set up recreation centers and made mobile visits wherever commanders requested. That included Special Forces Teams in remote combat zone jungles. She brought reminders of home, thoughts of a sister or the girl next door. Officers asked her to take risks because they believed her visits to the front lines were important to the men. Every Vietnam veteran who meets her thinks of her as a brother-at-arms. Donut Dolly is Kotcher's personal view of the war, recorded in a journal kept during her tour, day by day as she experienced it. It is a faithful representation of the twists and turns of the turbulent, controversial time. While in Vietnam, Kotcher was once abducted; dodged an ambush in the Delta; talked with a true war hero in a hospital who had charged a machine gun; and had a conversation with a prostitute. A rare account of an American Red Cross volunteer in Vietnam, Donut Dolly will appeal to those interested in the Vietnam War, to those who have interest in the military, and to women aspiring to go beyond the ordinary.

1964 Year of Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback): Thomas Brennan 1964 Year of Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
Thomas Brennan
R577 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reckless - Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (Hardcover): Robert K. Brigham Reckless - Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (Hardcover)
Robert K. Brigham 1
R841 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R69 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were effectively identical to what was offered to the Nixon administration four years earlier. Those four years cost America billions of dollars and over 35,000 war deaths and casualties, and resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 Vietnamese. And those years were the direct result of the supposed master plan of the most important voice in the Nixon White House on American foreign policy: Henry Kissinger. Using newly available archival material from the Nixon Presidential Library and Kissinger's personal papers, Robert K. Brigham shows how Kissinger's approach to Vietnam was driven by personal political rivalries and strategic confusion, while domestic politics played an outsized influence on Kissinger's so-called strategy. There was no great master plan or Bismarckian theory that supported how the US continued the war or conducted peace negotiations. As a result, a distant tragedy was perpetuated, forever changing both countries. Now, perhaps for the first time, we can see the full scale of that tragedy and the machinations that fed it.

The Vietnam War (Paperback, 3rd edition): Mitchell Hall The Vietnam War (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Mitchell Hall
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Vietnam War examines this conflict from its origins up until North Vietnam's victory in 1975. Historian Mitchell K. Hall's lucid account is an ideal introduction to the key debates surrounding a war that remains controversial and disputed in American scholarship and collective memory. The new edition has been fully updated and expanded to include additional material on the preceding French Indochina War, the American antiwar movement, North Vietnamese perspectives and motivations, and the postwar scholarly debate. The text is supported by a documents section and a wide range of study tools, including a timeline of events, glossaries of key figures and terms, and a rich "further reading" section accompanied by a new bibliographical essay. Concise yet comprehensive, The Vietnam War remains the most accessible and stimulating introduction to this crucial 20th-century conflict.

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